Quotes About Response

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

If a soft answer turneth away wrath, maybe no answer stirreth wrath up.

Though I knew that actually I had heard no voice, I could not dismiss the possibility that it had spoken and I had failed to hear it because of some deficiency in me or something wrong that I had done….I decided that I had better accept the call that had not come, just in case it had come and I had missed it.

In a conversation, you always expect a reply. And if you honor the other party to the conversation, if you honor the otherness of the other party, you understand that you must not expect always to receive a reply that you foresee or a reply that you will like.

think I have sort of an odd aversion, almost like a chemical sensitivity, when it comes to other people's enthusiasm.

Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that.

Whenever a woman tries to put you out of a temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that.

The answer almost unmanned me.

All the woman flushed up in Marian's face as I spoke.

When a simpleton abused him, Buddha listened in silence; but when the man had finished, Buddha asked him: "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" The man answered: "To him who offered it." "My son," said Buddha, "I decline to accept your abuse, and request you to keep it for yourself

Haven't we all done this? Hardened a particular position, not as a response to superior information, but because of anger?

When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found.

Observe, orient, decide, act.

What was the point of dedicating your life to giving warnings if everyone who might have listened—because the majority were still unbothered and would possibly remain so till the sun went out—merely nodded and agreed?

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

As Viktor Frankl wrote, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." You have the power to choose how you respond. You are a product of your decisions, not your conditions. In

what action triggers do is create an "instant habit." Habits are behavioral autopilot, and that's exactly what action triggers are setting up.

By preloading a decision, they created an instant habit.

the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.